ByteBoosters is now selling via eBay, two new Transwarp GS enhancements.

High-speed 32KB DarkCache Card to replace the standard 8KB cache piggyback on the Transwarp GS. It uses the fastest SRAMS (8ns) available.

Complete GAL ICs replacement set, same high using the latest hardware revision and highest speed from Lattice (7ns).

Mountain View, CA, August 26, 2016 – Manila Gear, makers of the 4soniq quadraphonic sound card for the Apple IIGS, today announced the Apple IIGS VGA Adapter. The adapter lets you connect your Apple IIGS to a VGA monitor that supports 15 kHz. It consists of a DA-15 to DE-15 adapter with an integrated sync separator.

This is a great solution for those of us who have aging AppleColor RGB Monitors, or are still looking for a simpler and better VGA solution.

The adapter has been tested and confirmed to work with a few Benq and Samsung monitors. It can also be used with monitors that do not support 15 kHz, by using the adapter in conjunction with a frequency upscaler such as the Gonbes GBS-8200. A list of supported monitors is maintained here.

The Apple IIGS VGA Adapter retails for $30, and is now available for purchase at https://manilagear.com/product/apple-iigs-vga-adapter.

The WhiteRAM 8MB will be available very soon now on A2Heaven.com for the low introductory price of USD $89.99 including shipping to anywhere in the solar system.

Unique features are:

• Lowest power consumption (<0.8W max when active) on any 8MB board ever.
• Smallest size 8MB expansion board ever!
• Battery Backup 8MB RAM.
• 512K ROM add on BOARD with ROM disk driver and Memory Test Program.
• Built-in ROM Tools and Debugger software.
• Quality support provided by the A2Heaven.com team.

Specifications:

• 8MB RAM using Static RAM chip
• 512KB ROM for ROMDisk or ROM-based tools
• Fast RAM – 70ns
• White PCB with status LEDs
• Gold contact fingers ensuring high reliability.

Ready just in time for KFest …

Maximizing your Apple IIGS RAM to 8MB finally becomes affordable with a quality RAM Expansion board from the ByteBoosters – The D(ark)RAM-8MB

The DarkRAM-8MB will be available this week on eBay for a low introductory price of USD $99.99 including world-wide express shipping (shipping time to the USA is usually 5 business days)

Unique features are:

• Lowest power consumption (<1.8W max when active) on any 8MB board ever
• Smallest size 8MB expansion board ever
• Providing 3.3V supply to other projects via aux-connector

Specifcations:

• 8MB RAM using 16Mbit DRAM chips (4Mbit x 4)
• Optimized using only four 16MBit chips to reach 4MB
• Fast RAM -60ns
• 4MB out of 8MB are fully DMA compatible like any other >4MB card
• Black PCB with blue Power Indicator LED
• Gold contact fingers ensuring high reliability

This totals the memory of your ROM 3 IIGS to 8.125MB (8320KB)!

All boards come fully tested (stock and TWGS speed) on ROM01 and ROM03 machines with a 5 years warranty and 30 days money back guarantee (less shipping).

Henry Courbis writes:

With KansasFest only weeks away I wanted to remind attendees about the specially priced show offer from Ultimate-Micro.com for the Universal PSU Kit: https://goo.gl/amFHma

You’ll receive a $10 discount plus save the regular shipping charges, plus your order will be hand-delivered to you at KFEST. Ultimate-Micro staff will also be available to assist if you have any issues or questions. We recommend bringing some basic tools if you want to install the Universal PSU Kit while at the conference.

There aren’t plans to bring extra PSU Kits due to their weight and added complexity with travel to and from the show, so be sure to place your order NOW and don’t miss out on this great offer which ends July 16th, at 6:00pm Eastern.

For Accessories and Related Items:
IIe: https://goo.gl/GIBcyZ
IIGS: https://goo.gl/GIBcyZ
///: https://goo.gl/NYYI1A

NOTE: Be sure to select “KFEST Special” items for discounted prices and no shipping charges.

We are glad to announce another ReActiveMicro release to the Apple II Community!

We have published the RAMWorks III 2 Meg Plus Expander schematic and programing files.

https://goo.gl/HkraX8

With the RAMWorks III and the 2 Meg Plus Expander now fully documented we can start the RAMWorks IIII Kit project and continue with adding AUX RAM to the IDEA2c Drive project.

The RAMWorks III Kit project is planned to be a RAMWorks style Apple IIe AUX Slot RAM Card with 4Meg of RAM and sell for about $80. It will also maintain compatibility with all AE’s RGB daughterboard options.

As named, this project will be sold in “kit” form and feature DIP and through hole parts for ease of assembly. We will work to keep the IC count to about 10 units so even a novice should be able to completely assemble the kit in about 1 hour. With some luck this project will be ready for the SolderFest session of KFEST 2016.

All are welcome who would like to help with testing or writing software. We would like to update AE’s RAMWorks III Test program to allow for 4Megs. Please contact “Support at ReActiveMicro.com”.

Plamen, a Bulgarian retro-computing enthusiast, has been prolific in cloning and reverse-engineering and even modernizing several Apple II peripheral products, such as the Mockingboard, AE RAMWorks and RAM Express, Apple SCSI card and many more.

Rich Dreher of R&D Automation has announced the opening of sales for the fourth run of his wildly popular CFFA3000 flash storage and disk emulation card. You can order the CFFA3000 from here. Initially, there is a limit of 2 boards per customer.